Ram Karan, a corrupt official in the Physical Education
Department of the Delhi school system, lives in one of the city's slums with his widowed daughter and his eight-year-old granddaughter. Bumbling, ironical, sad, Ram is also a man corroded by a guilty secret.
Internationally acclaimed on publication, An Obedient Father takes the reader to an India that is both far away and real - into the mind of a character as tormented, funny and ambiguous as one of Dostoevsky's anti-heroes.